Delft taxi shooting leaves schoolchildren and commuters traumatised - EWN

A neighbourhood watch leader from Delft has described seeing two young girls shivering with fear and covered in blood after being caught up in the shooting at the Delft Palm taxi rank.

The incident, which was in close proximity to a local primary school, left commuters running for their lives.

Speaking to Lester Kiewit on CapeTalk, Delft Safe Passage Neighbourhood Watch chairperson Waleed Jaffer described how he saw the two girls shortly after the shooting.

"They were really traumatised because they had blood on the sides of their pants, and one had blood on the jacket and on the pants."

The girls told him they had dropped to the ground when the shots were fired and how one of the victims had fallen on top of them.

"The kind of trauma that I saw in their face, the fear, you know, they were shivering."

Jaffer said he decided not to send his own children to a nearby primary school that day.

He told Kiewit there had been another shooting at the same taxi rank early on Thursday, despite increased police visibility.